Case 2: Regional Airlines Case 2: Regional Airlines Case Introduction A+ for effort‚ Customer Service Pays for Itself In an extremely regulated and thus relatively uniform industry such as the commercial airline industry‚ the successful airline is the organization which sets itself apart from the competition. Within an industry that requires customer planning to interface with flight schedules and security measures‚ a major operational aspect which can aid an airline in gaining an edge on
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Comprehensive Case Analysis Southwest Airlines: What¡¦s Next? April 11‚ 2000 They Took a Great Idea and Made It Fly Southwest Airlines Company is a domestic airline that provides primarily short-haul‚ high-frequency‚ point-point‚ low-fare service to 53 airports in 52 cities in26 states throughout the United States. Southwest focuses primarily on point-to-point service‚ providing more direct nonstop routes for short-haul customers and‚ therefore‚ minimizing connections‚ delays and total
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Management Control System Case UPDEPO By Bert Enriquez JR Background Southwest: of June 18‚ 1971: Headquartered at Love Field in Dallas‚ it began flying with three Boeing 737 serving following Texas cities: Dallas‚ Houston‚ and San Antonio 2002: Recognized by Fortune magazine as the most admired Airline Company and listed in “100 Best Corporate Citizen” by Business Ethics 2004: Total operating revenue of $6.5 billion and 31‚000 employees. Evaluation Problem: 1. What is Southwest’s Strategy
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CASE STUDY IN TRAVEL‚ HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM Tourism in Singapore 6 May 2013 Table of Contents 1 Introduction The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board was first established in 1964 with the mandate to promote Singapore as a tourist destination. We began work with a small staff strength of 25 and that year‚ we welcomed 91‚000 visitors. The Merlion was created as a symbol as part of marketing campaigns. (Anon.‚ 2013) Travel agent licensing and tourist guide training were
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FlyWithUs Airlines has started a new low-cost carrier service to link major cities such as New York City with small towns. A few of the airports that service FlyWithUs are located in remote areas and are ill-equipped to handle emergencies. The airline also has a charter service that flies to locations around the world. In some remote areas‚ where the airports are small‚ help may not be immediately available in the event of an accident or some other crisis. Due to a failure of the air traffic
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Business School Cerebration 2009: Our Case Sponsors Cerebration 2009: Strategic Partner SPRING Singapore Cerebration 2009: Competition Structure and Format Cerebration 2009: Targeted Timelines Instructions: Round 1 (Executive Summary) Instructions: Round 2 (Making the Business Plan) Case study: Asiatravel.com Page # 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Asiatravel.com 2 Greetings from Team Cerebration Thank you for registering for Cerebration 2009. Cerebration offers real life case studies of leading Asian companies
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the importance of depreciation expenses. Depreciation as a concept and in practice plays a very important role in a company ’s cash flow hence in funding. The reason ’s are basically two‚ firstly because depreciation is a way of self finance for an organization and secondly because is a way of decreasing taxes that the government claims as the company doesn ’t have to pay taxes on depreciation which consequently enlarges the cash flow of the company. As a term depreciation in accounting is the
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Illustrate the meaning of “Sustainable Competitive Advantage”. What was the main strategy adopted by Southwest Airlines that made it successful in the airline industry? Competitive advantage is a position of a company in a competitive landscape that allows the company earning return on investments higher than the cost of investments. Competitive advantage should be relevant‚ unique and sustainable. Therefore sustainable competitive advantage‚ it’s a long-term competitive advantage that a company
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production output over this period was: Year 1‚ 35 000 units; Year 2‚ 35 000 units; Year 3‚ 18 000 units; Year 4‚ 12 000 units. The asset cost $ 100 000 and associated installation costs amounted to $20 000 and residual value is $5000. The amount of depreciation charged in the first year is: Selected Answer: c. $42 000 Correct Answer: b. $40 250 Question 5 0 out of 1 points If a sale and leaseback transaction results in a finance lease‚ IAS 17 Leases‚ provides the following accounting treatment
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Ryan Air Case Study Strategic Management Names: Table of Contents Step 1: Identifying the positioning questions 1.1 Summary of the case pg. 2 1.2 Main Questions & Problems pg. 3 1.3 How was the strategy developed? pg. 3 Step 2: Gathering & analyzing the facts 2.1 Ryan Air Environment Analyses pg. 3 2.2 Ryan Air Strategic Capability Analyses pg. 5 2.4 Ryan Air Competitive Strategy & Business Model Analysis pg. 5 2.5 Ryan Air Stakeholder expectations & purposes Analysis
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